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PENNA. R.R. CO. v. PUB. SERVICE COMM.

No. 53.

250 U.S. 566 (1919)

40 S.Ct. 36

64 L.Ed. 1142

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 10, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic D. McKenney, with whom Mr. John Spalding Flannery was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. William N. Trinkle, with whom Mr. George F. Snyder and Mr. Berne H. Evans were on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This case was begun by a complaint to the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania that the plaintiff in error, the Pennsylvania Railroad, ran a specified train the last car of which was not equipped at its rear end with a platform thirty inches in width, guard rails and steps, as required by a statute of Pennsylvania. Act of June 19, 1911, § 7. The train was moving in interstate commerce. The Railroad Company...

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